Maestro Michi Renoir plays every Tuesday night at Cat's Art MusikCircus but a review really doesn't matter so much as he won't do the same show again the next week, he never does. In all these years in Second Life, I've never heard anyone else do this as he improvises every show. Last night he was playing on a water theme and Cat said this morning she felt if anyone could find Atlantis then it would be Michi.
This isn't piano playing along the lines of Oscar Peterson who may be the most annoying pianist I ever heard. Peterson can play endless solos but they just make the piano 'twinkle' and that noise makes me want to take a chainsaw to the instrument to make it stop.
Michi's improvisation goes through multiple instruments and multiple different orchestrations to produce a trip that often goes out for the entire hour. It may seem chaotic that he would do all these things but that's the genius as Maestro Michi makes it flow, last night with a theme of water.
The crowd was cool as there was VJ from the Netherlands who does an RL show with synthesized music and visual art projected onto 3D surfaces. Paula the Cloud Painter was also there and she paints while she listens to performers play. Even the people who do not play bring interesting things to the Circus and Michi said after his show what this Circus magic means for him.
It seemed things were over but DD was there too and she said she would like to demo some new work if we would like to listen. Of course we want to listen so she started a short set a few minutes later.
That was about the time Cat and I exploded as DD was playing some crazy cool stuff. If you like pop songs then you probably won't like what she does. If you don't then climb aboard, no telling where this train is going. Everything Deceptions Digital plays is experimental and it's always fresh as she is grabbing sounds from anywhere and then making them flow in whatever demented way she thinks is best. Demented is definitely the finest way to do it. She's very much composing to convey a mood or a feeling and she even gets into electric guitar doing it. I have no idea how she gets the guitar to do what she wants it to do but, sure enough, she does.
This is music for people who really have seen an enormous number of performances from an enormous number of bands yet still there is the hunger for stuff we haven't heard before. Cat has that hunger in a big way and that's why she has gone to all the trouble and expense to keep the MusikCircus running.
I've seen the virtuosos from Segovia to Every Killer Lead Guitarist and I've seen the bands that suck. Lately there's a video floating around on Facebook of the Worst Band Ever Covering "Comfortably Numb" and at first I thought it would be funny to post it as I loathe the sterile covers people often do of the song. I didn't post it as these guys, no matter what happened in the gig, started out with the love of the music. It won't make me any better as a musician to try to humiliate them so it's best to leave that one in the box.
So I've heard a lot of music and so has just about everyone who goes to the Circus. The experimental stuff is a big part of what keeps people coming back as you really don't know for sure what will happen in any of the shows.
This isn't piano playing along the lines of Oscar Peterson who may be the most annoying pianist I ever heard. Peterson can play endless solos but they just make the piano 'twinkle' and that noise makes me want to take a chainsaw to the instrument to make it stop.
Michi's improvisation goes through multiple instruments and multiple different orchestrations to produce a trip that often goes out for the entire hour. It may seem chaotic that he would do all these things but that's the genius as Maestro Michi makes it flow, last night with a theme of water.
The crowd was cool as there was VJ from the Netherlands who does an RL show with synthesized music and visual art projected onto 3D surfaces. Paula the Cloud Painter was also there and she paints while she listens to performers play. Even the people who do not play bring interesting things to the Circus and Michi said after his show what this Circus magic means for him.
It seemed things were over but DD was there too and she said she would like to demo some new work if we would like to listen. Of course we want to listen so she started a short set a few minutes later.
That was about the time Cat and I exploded as DD was playing some crazy cool stuff. If you like pop songs then you probably won't like what she does. If you don't then climb aboard, no telling where this train is going. Everything Deceptions Digital plays is experimental and it's always fresh as she is grabbing sounds from anywhere and then making them flow in whatever demented way she thinks is best. Demented is definitely the finest way to do it. She's very much composing to convey a mood or a feeling and she even gets into electric guitar doing it. I have no idea how she gets the guitar to do what she wants it to do but, sure enough, she does.
This is music for people who really have seen an enormous number of performances from an enormous number of bands yet still there is the hunger for stuff we haven't heard before. Cat has that hunger in a big way and that's why she has gone to all the trouble and expense to keep the MusikCircus running.
I've seen the virtuosos from Segovia to Every Killer Lead Guitarist and I've seen the bands that suck. Lately there's a video floating around on Facebook of the Worst Band Ever Covering "Comfortably Numb" and at first I thought it would be funny to post it as I loathe the sterile covers people often do of the song. I didn't post it as these guys, no matter what happened in the gig, started out with the love of the music. It won't make me any better as a musician to try to humiliate them so it's best to leave that one in the box.
So I've heard a lot of music and so has just about everyone who goes to the Circus. The experimental stuff is a big part of what keeps people coming back as you really don't know for sure what will happen in any of the shows.
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